NEW DELHI: For London-based Sudhir Pandey, a trip to India to meet his parents after three years has turned into a nightmare due to the unending chaos at European airports. He boarded a Lufthansa flight from London to Munich on December 14 and was to take a connecting flight from there to Delhi.
However, severe weather disruptions in Germany meant that the connecting flight was first delayed and then cancelled. He was finally put on an Emirates flight which took off from Munich early on December 16 and then managed to reach Delhi via Dubai a day later — three days after leaving London — while his baggage is still yet to reach him. Thus, a 12-hour journey had turned into a 72-hour ordeal.
